Teresa Jusino Will Write For Food.

About Me

	Teresa Jusino Astoria, NY Member since: Oct, 2008 Last login: 09/12/2009 Last update : 03/04/2009 Contact Me
photo credit: Joanna Wilson Photography

Birthday	07/11/1979
Hometown	Elmont, NY/New York, NY
Nickname	I have been called Terry, T, TJ, Reethy, Wad, and Miss T by various people. If you can come up with something even more creative, be my guest!
Ethnicity	Latino/Latina
Nationality	United States

Teresa Jusino entered the world kicking and screaming on the same day that Skylab fell. Coincidence? She thinks not. Her writing has appeared in the community newspaper, Elmont Life, as well as on the sadly defunct website, CentralBooking.com, edited by Kevin Smokler. Currently, she is a contributing writer for PinkRaygun.com, a webzine that examines geek culture from a feminine perspective. She has also recently become a comics writer for PopMatters.com. Teresa is working on several projects including essays, a comic, and a collection of short stories. She hopes that, one day, her fiction will be read by people who don't know her.

I like stuff. Things too, but mostly stuff.
Some of that stuff is:
writing, reading, singing (LOTS of karaoke), engaging in geekery, watching films, TV, and theater, taking walks, hanging out with friends over good wine, and figuring out ways by which I can save the world...

1984, Everything Is Illuminated, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, How to Breathe Underwater, The Secret History, Unaccustomed Earth, Man Walks Into a Room, Y: The Last Man, The Sandman, Pride and Prejudice

Shakespeare, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Jhumpa Lahiri, Donna Tartt, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Kruass, Brian K. Vaughan

I just finished reading "Proust was a Neuroscientist" by Jonah Lehrer, which I would highly recommend to artists of all types. Now, I'm reading "Dead Until Dark" by Charlene Harris. Yes, I love "True Blood" on HBO. Sue me. :)

My day job is being a press assistant for a small theatrical PR firm. My hope is that one day people will pay me enough to write that I can make a living doing it. We'll see how THAT goes... :)

Undergraduate College/University	New York University - Tisch School of the Arts, class of 2002
Undergraduate Area of Study	Drama/English Literature
High School	Elmont Memorial High School, class of 1998
Academic Credentials	BFA in Drama with a double major in English Literature

Paid published work! Some of them may include: - a short story/essay/article published in a literary journal or some other magazine/outlet that pays - a short story collection - a novel - a weekly comic - a graphic novel

I have favorite authors...but I hesitate to name specific authors as "influences." It's probably safe to say that I've been influenced in one way or another by everyone I've ever read.

The Girl Effect - a smart way to address social, economic, and political problems in the world
Children's International - I'm sponsoring a lovely girl in the Phillippines, and it's a great and personal way to do real good in someone's life
iMentor - the mentorship program for people who "don't have time" to mentor
Dancing Classrooms - changing the lives of public school children through ballroom dance (as you've seen in the documentary Mad, Hot Ballroom or the film Take the Lead)
Stone Soup Theater Arts - a socially conscious, politically active New York-based theater company going into its eighth season.